The Divine Mother

 Let the Divine Shakti descend in you and do the work of strengthening the Adhar, purifying it, widening it, removing the falsehoods and thus making it capable of holding the Truth Consciousness.

That's Sadhana

Record of Yoga

I have started once more in earnest to follow Sri Aurobindo in his Synthesis of Yoga, Part 2, The Yoga of Integral Knowledge' for yesterday June 21st International Yoga day.

"ALL SPIRITUAL seeking moves towards an object of

 Knowledge to which men ordinarily do not turn the

eye of the mind, to someone or something Eternal,

 Infinite, Absolute that is not the temporal things or forces of

which we are sensible, although he or it may be in them or

behind them or their source or creator. 

It aims at a state of

 knowledge by which we can touch, enter or know by identity

 this Eternal, Infinite and Absolute, a consciousness other than

 our ordinary consciousness of ideas and forms and things, a

Knowledge that is not what we call knowledge but something self-existent, everlasting, infinite."

Synthesis of Yoga, Part 2, 'The Yoga of Integral Knowledge' Chapter 1, "The Object of Knowledge", p. 1

"There are two successive movements of consciousness, dif-

ficult but well within our capacity, by which we can have access

to the superior gradations of our conscious existence. 

There

 is first a movement inward by which, instead of living in our

surface mind, we break the wall between our external and our

now subliminal self; this can be brought about by a gradual

effort and discipline or by a vehement transition, sometimes

a forceful involuntary rupture, — the latter by no means safe

for the limited human mind accustomed to live securely only

within its normal limits, — but in either way, safe or unsafe, the thing can be done. 

What we discover within this secret parto f ourselves is an inner being, a soul, an inner mind, an innerl ife, an inner subtle-physical entity which is much larger in itsp otentialities, more plastic, more powerful, more capable of a manifold knowledge and dynamism than our surface mind, life or body; especially, it is capable of a direct communication with the universal forces, movements, objects of the cosmos, a direct feeling and opening to them, a direct action on them and even a widening of itself beyond the limits of the personal mind, the personal life, the body, so that it feels itself more and more a universal being no longer limited by the existing walls of our too narrow mental, vital, physical existence. 

This widening can extend itself to a complete entry into the consciousness of cosmic Mind, into unity with the universal Life, even into a oneness with universal Matter. 

That, however, is still an identification either with a diminished cosmic truth or with the cosmic Ignorance"

"But once this entry into the inner being is accomplished,

the inner Self is found to be capable of an opening, an ascent

 upwards into things beyond our present mental level; that is the

 second spiritual possibility in us. 

The first most ordinary result is a discovery of a vast static and silent Self which we feel to be our real or our basic existence, the foundation of all else that we are.

There may be even an extinction, a Nirvana both of our active

being and of the sense of self into a Reality that is indefinable

and inexpressible. 

But also we can realise that this self is not

 only our own spiritual being but the true self of all others; it

presents itself then as the underlying truth of cosmic existence.

It is possible to remain in a Nirvana of all individuality, to stop

at a static realisation or, regarding the cosmic movement as a

superficial play or illusion imposed on the silent Self, to pass into

some supreme immobile and immutable status beyond the uni-

verse. 

But another less negative line of supernormal experience

also offers itself; for there takes place a large dynamic descent

of light, knowledge, power, bliss or other supernormal energies

into our self of silence, and we can ascend too into higher regions

of the Spirit where its immobile status is the foundation of those

great and luminous energies. 

It is evident in either case that we

have risen beyond the mind of Ignorance into a spiritual state;

but, in the dynamic movement, the resultant greater action of

Consciousness-Force may present itself either simply as a pure

spiritual dynamis not otherwise determinate in its character or

it may reveal a spiritual mind-range where mind is no longer ignorant of the Reality, — not yet a supermind level, but deriving from the supramental Truth-Consciousness and still luminous with something of its knowledge.

Sri Aurobindo, Life Divine, Book 1, Chapter 28, "Supermind, mind and overmind Maya"

The Absolute, the Perfect, the Immune,
One who is in us as our secret self,
Our mask of imperfection has assumed,
He has made this tenement of flesh his own,
His image in the human measure cast
That to his divine measure we might rise;
Then in a figure of divinity
The Maker shall recast us and impose
A plan of godhead on the mortal's mould
Lifting our finite minds to his infinite,
Touching the moment with eternity.
[Savitri B-01 C-04 S-06 F-09]

Two dreams

 In early morning, there was a dream in which my mom, brother and sister were there trying to settle the property dispute 

The other dream was a school classroom where there were children around 10, some alcoholic drink was passed around and some took it  then the room converted into a discussion with me and Vichare (old friend no more) on some comparability of a software package I had made and some others. !

Strange dream

 Had a strange dream today early morning. It was some kind of sports competition that was contested, there was a big dispute, some cops came there, there were some heated debates, there were an international participants. Then later one of the two towers of a huge building collapsed, and I was still sitting on top of the ruins of one building and discussing with someone 

Dream diary

 I have been getting so many interesting dreams in the past year, that I have decided to keep a dream diary.

Today early morning dream was with Amma, her disciples at a program. Amma danced with me, while standing put my head on her lap that had Jasmine flowers. I met and Swami Jnyanamritanand and asked him his rank. It looked in the dream that Ashramites are being given a rank of importance. At the end Amma made arrangements for me to sit behind her. A very nice, long and complex dream.

Wednesday June 17th Early Morning Sujlegaon

It is almost 4 days since I am back to blogging. Too many things happen in a few days these days.

On Saturday 12th June 2010 did a Varunyantra seeding in Woodlands complex in Pune. Between C & D building. Started at 4.30 PM. It took a long time to start the fire, as the bio-briquettes were wet. The relative humidity was 60 %, there was hardly any overhead cloud cover. The temperature 29.2. For the first time used Lavan i.e. Ammonium Chloride. Total used was 4 Kg. It was amazing to see it vaporise (disassociate) and reach above the 11th floor building. The white fumes were easy to see flying above the building. And it worked. Got a rainfall within about 2 hours at 6.30 PM. Chetana told Saniya, "Abani paus padala"

On Sunday returned back Wing Commander Kasbekar's book on Atmosphere, loaded the Sakal Qualis with all the workshop material, books, bean bag etc. etc. I seem to always travel with a lot of stuff. And drove off to Rangoli to stay bye to IITB friends and pick up Dr. Parasnis. The IITB friends gave me good advice about my blog, which I immediately implemented.

The Varunyatra started on time at 10:30 with the driver Vijay, myself and Dr. Parasnis. We had lots of discussion during the time he was here. The Varunyantra was interupted briefly at Bhigwan with a Rasta roko, and for an unnecessarily long lunch (terrible service) at a roadside Dhaba in Indapur. Vijay then drove very fast and yet cautiously and we reached Latur in a record time of 2 1/2 hours. At Latur in a hotel Manas (where we ended up staying for the night) we were received by ... (blog to be completed later)

Friday 11th June 2010

The day started with a phone-call made to Santosh Deshmukh. His father had a second brain- hemorrhage is admitted to ICU in Nanded. I told him to be prepared for the worst. And sure enough I got the news at noon that his father passed away. On second thought it may not be the worst but the best for his father. He was paralyzed and confined to bed for the past 10 long years. So in a way he is released form this jail and take another body. One really cannot judge whether the death of a person is good or bad. Death remains a mystery.

Narendra had come over who does computer maintainance. He makes a living by installing pirated software on people's machine. He charges Rs 300 per session of 2 hours. He has master CDs of almost any software. This is big business in India. A willful open source technology sharing.

I went to the Sakal office and Shri Tirmare helped with me improving the Marathi presentation. He is very fast and meticulous. I agot a contact of someone who can translate the varunyantra website in Marathi. He is supposed to give me a quote and time-frame.

I received an advance o from Sakal Social Foundation for setiing up the experiments in Nanded. Have to start keeping all receipts and vouchers.

Got a phonecall from Chetana. She has got admission to the Ph.D. program at IIT-Monash. Both her parents, that is myself and her mom are Ph.D. so it is natural that she should also do a Ph.D. She has to commute to IITB from Pune. That is what we decided in the evening. It is going to be challenging for her to manage two children and a Ph.D. But my son-in-law Anoop is quite supportive.

Worked with Trupti in the evening to set up links to the Sakal group on the Varunyantra website. She declined to take any money for her design work, but I said that I will give you a small gift! She is very very quick in her work. She can keep pace with me.

Also met Shri Kulkarni, the Chairman of Jeshtha Nagarik Sangh to do a Lavanvajra at Woodlands on saturday at 4.00 PM. He is quite fit at the age of 78! So looks like I can work for another 15 years. Will I keep doing Varunyantra work for that many years? Who knows.

The Latur program is finalized. I have asked Shahir Tumwad to bring a small group from Sujlegaon. Looks like the Varunyatra will be launched from Latur.

Have to talk to Shri Uddhav to get press publicity in Sakal.

Must stop now. It is 3.10 am. My usual work hour. Ya nisha sarva bhutanam yasyam jagarti sayami. A physical interpretaion of Bhagwat Gita shlok.